Solid or stranded wire - In wall Ethernet run

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Starscream122

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#225844 7-Dec-2017 14:43

Hi Team

I have wired up a couple of rooms for Ethernet using the ethernet packs you can buy from PB Tech Cat 6 with the ends on them

so I brought 1 30 meter cat 6 cable and 1 20 meter cable and I just cut the ends off and ran them in the walls then terminated them to a keystone jack Tested

with Lan tester all ok also getting gigabit connection speeds.

But... Should I have used solid core cable? the reason I didn't is I didn't want 300 odd meters of Ethernet cable (solid cable is sold by the box)

This is for residential non business use

Thanks.

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LennonNZ

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#1914654 7-Dec-2017 14:56

Stranded Cables are normally used for Patch Cords as they get moved a lot
Solid Cables are normally used for Structured Cables which are not moved.

For your use it makes no difference but punching down stranded cable is not recommended as it can become loose very easily.

RunningMan

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#1914680 7-Dec-2017 15:35

xpd:

Not necessarily, Im running twisted under the house,

Twisted is different to stranded. All cable should be twisted pairs - that's what helps with interference rejection. Stranded means the individual conductors are made up of several fine strands, rather than a solid core. Stranded is more flexible, so used for patch cables, but because the individual strands move and deform against each other, they have a tendency to come loose, or cause intermittent connections when punched into IDC type connectors.